June 2024 list by Julia Pearce
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Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves, Loving Each Other
by Sophie Grégoire Trudeau
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau invites readers on a deeply personal journey toward self-knowledge, acceptance, and empowerment, drawing on the expertise of top psychologists, psychiatrists, scientists, and thought leaders. As a passionate advocate for mental health, Trudeau believes that in order to know and accept ourselves fully, we need to understand why we think and feel the way we do, and recognize the experiences, attitudes, and patterns that may be holding us back.
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The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging
by Julia Hotz
Investigating “social prescriptions”—referrals to community activities and resources instead of solely pharmaceutical prescriptions, a solutions-focused journalist tours to world, meeting the doctors, nurses, therapists and social workers who have started to flip the script as well as the patients who have benefited from this life-changing and lasting “medicine.”
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Gut: An Owner's Guide
by Austin Chiang
In this latest entry in The Body Literacy Library a world-renowned expert in the field of gut health translates medical jargon into simple, clear prose, answers frequently asked queries and examines what we misunderstand about our gut.
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How to Fall in Love with Yoga: Move. Breathe. Connect.
by Sarvesh Shashi
This illustrated guide to the classic and authentic practice of yoga from the country of its origin features expert tips and notes for beginners as well as detailed meditative techniques to bring focus to mindfulness.
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Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully
by Julie McFadden
Drawing on her more than fifteen years of experience, a compassionate hospice/palliative care nurse and TikTok star expertly interweaves emotional insight and practical advice to demystify end-of-life care for both patients and caregivers, proving a better death goes hand in hand with a better life.
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On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
by Anthony S. Fauci
The most famous—and most revered—doctor in the world today who guided America through the COVID pandemic—and who embodies “speaking truth to power” with dignity and results, reveals his behind-the-scenes advising and negotiating with seven presidents on key issues from global AIDS relief to infectious disease preparedness at home..
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Psychedelic Outlaws: The Movement Revolutionizing Modern Medicine
by Joanna Kempner
An award-winning sociologist reveals how ordinary people, crippled by chronic pain, created their own medicine from home-grown psilocybin mushrooms, developing near-clinical dosing protocols and challenging a broken healthcare system for recognition.
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Rewire: Break the Cycle, Alter Your Thoughts and Create Lasting Change
by Nicole Vignola
A neuroscientist and online sensation offers this groundbreaking guide in which she explains why you're subconsciously programmed to repeat certain habits and how you can rewire your brain to change unwanted behavior to reach your fullest potential and create the best version of yourself.
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Reversing Alzheimer's: The New Toolkit to Improve Cognition and Protect Brain Health
by Heather Sandison
One of the foremost Alzheimer's dementia-care clinicians presents an individualized, step-by-step, whole-body, evidence-based approach to reversing and preventing cognitive decline, aiming to help people with dementia return to themselves and help those who are living in fear of developing dementia take good care of their current and future brain health.
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Take Back Your Brain: How a Sexist Society Gets in Your Head--and How to Get It Out
by Kara Loewentheil
Weaving cognitive psychology with feminist theory, a Master Coach and host of the UnF*ck Your Brain podcast, showing how she rewired her brain to overcome sexist social messages, offers practical thought exercises to transform your emotions, actions, the direction of your life—and even the world—by unleashing your true power.
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This Is Why You Dream: What Your Sleeping Brain Reveals About Your Waking Life
by Rahul Jandial
Exploring the landscape of our subconscious, and tracing recent cutting-edge dream research and brain science, a dual-trained neurosurgeon and neuroscientist shows why humans have retained the ability to dream across millennia and how we can now harness its wondrous powers in both our sleeping and waking lives.
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Undue Burden: Life-and-Death Decisions in Post-Roe America
by Shefali Luthra
Through the perspectives of patients, providers, activists and lawmakers, the author, as the landscape of abortion rights continues to shift, forcing people to cross state lines to seek life-saving care, presents this timely examination of human rights, healthcare, and economic and racial inequality in America.
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